Daniel C. Dennett Quotes
Not a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or cares.
Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.
In the long run I certainly hope information is the cure for fanaticism, but I am afraid information is more the cause than the cure.
Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications.
Imagination is cheap as long as you don't have to worry about the details.
If I know better than you know what I am up to, it is only because I spend more time with myself than you do.
People are afraid of being more ignorant than their children―especially, apparantly, their daughters.
The secret of happiness: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.
That's a rhetorical question, and trying to answer rhetorical questions instead of being cowed by them is a good habit to cultivate.
Science, however, is not just a matter of making mistakes, but of making mistakes in public. Making mistakes for all to see, in the hopes of getting the others to help with the corrections.
One of the surprising discoveries of modern psychology is how easy it is to be ignorant of your own ignorance.